Mario
@mariob@liberdon.com  ·  activity timestamp 5 days ago
@Tutanota great board of recommandations. I would like to make some corrections:

- Firefox is really not a safe browser since Mozilla's latest changes.
- LineageOS is not even advertised as a consumer ready product. They do not implement bootloader locking. You would better recommend iodeOS
- better youtube alternatives would be PeerTube, Odysee, Rumble, etc
David
@deFractal@infosec.exchange  ·  activity timestamp 6 days ago
@Tutanota Can customers use a locally hosted server to bridge Tuta Mail and Calendars to standard IMAP+SMTP and CalDAV apps yet? Clients (the human variety, not the software) and I need at least two capabilities:

  1. See our old Google- and Microsoft-hosted personal accounts, our work accounts, and our new Tuta-, Mailbox-, or Proton-hosted accounts in a single app UI (or perhaps one mail app and one calendar app) for all accounts.

  2. Using that app—say, Thunderbird—drag and drop all our old mail from the Google or Microsoft mailbox hosting it to the new mailbox.

#1 Is necessary for anyone whose work or life depends on coordinating multiple calendars.

#2 Is the a necessary initial step before closing the old Google- or Microsoft-hosted accounts.
Brian
@Brian@veganism.social  ·  activity timestamp 6 days ago
@Tutanota I echo other people's sentiments about Brave. I actually didn't know about the owner being homophobic, but the cryptocurrency stuff is what kept me away from them. I also didn't know Session is dabbling in cryptocurrency, but apparently they are, along with, as mentioned, removing perfect forward secrecy from their service(Though I don't think it's that big of a deal by itself, but combined with the cryptocurrency it's odd.). As mentioned Searx doesn't seem to exist anymore, but a fork of it, SearXNG, exists. Another chatting platform I personally use is Briar, it's free and open source. Also for the Discord-types Revolt and the Matrix protocol exist. I haven't had experience with PeerTube, but it does exist instead of YouTube. As for Google Drive, CryptPad doubles as a cloud service and I almost didn't notice you had added it!!! I've used it, it's really good, but I'm really eager to try Tuta Drive.
Ente Auth is also a really good 2-factor authenticator.
Any other recommendations and even those I mentioned can honestly just be found on https://www.privacyguides.org/en/ and their forum also has some really good information.
I'm also seeing recommendations under this post that I didn't know about. Thank you for this post, it's a nice overview of a lot of services I like, as it's honestly hard to keep track of at times(And that's not necessarily bad, it means there are many alternatives!!!).
Viral Obscurity
@viralobscurity@mstdn.social  ·  activity timestamp 6 days ago
@Tutanota it's worth noting that the @ente 2FA app is available as is a standalone 2FA app from @bitwarden if you don't want to use their password manager for 2FA codes

In my opinion Ente and Bitwarden are really good apps for the average person

Proton (via the pass app) is very good but 2FA is mostly paywalled

Aegis is very good but more suited to the more experienced users who can mange their own backups
glytchy
@glytchy@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 6 days ago
@Tutanota I ain't any expert in cryptography or blockchain but weren't there some drama about Session removing Perfect Forward Secrecy, stating that Blockchain is enough (I probably simplified that)?
Something changed or is it just okay?

I also had huge problems with reliability of Session synchronization and receiving notifications but let's leave that
Kuo
@lohankuo@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 6 days ago
@Tutanota
UngoogledChromium is missing in the list,
it is an excellent and privacy respecting chrome based browser.
Posteo.de another excellent alternative EMail provider.
DuckDuck go is making it annoyingly difficult to avoid its AI search.
Results come from bing and are very poor of late.
I pay a small amount for ad free no ai search by MetaGer

Translation, deepl results are often best in class, its privacy is not, only use for unimportant purposes or better avoid.
Renarde
@Lana@potate.space  ·  activity timestamp 6 days ago
@Tutanota
I would recommend you remove brave off this list, even on a technical standpoint brave products are subpar and you have to disreagard the AI and crypto bullshit in it.

From a moral perspective every cent that goes into brave will eventually be funeled into anti human right campains.
The ceo is antivax, Pro Qanon, Election denialist, homophobe, ...

And finaly from a privacy stand point brave has an horrible track record of hijacking afiliate links, wanting to insert ads, tracking, ...
Renarde
@Lana@potate.space  ·  activity timestamp 6 days ago
@Tutanota
Recommending brave is like recommending bing with microsoft edge and getting all your info using Grok.

I would also that Brave AI is well know for paroting Brendan Eich viewpoint, the NY times ran an article on it's election and covid denialism (https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/22/business/media/ai-chatbots-right-wing-conservative.html)

So sincerelly stop giving brave any kind of visibility there is absolutly no reason to do so and while alienate people who are explicilty targetted by brave ceo.